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"Gee, I'm all cut up. Except when my mother was diagnosed with a fatal disease, she didn''t know anyone powerful and connected.
So she died." [
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Almost 5 hours ago
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"I am not being glib, but the biggest thing I wish I'd learned in art school was practicality, specifically, don't make paintings 1. bigger than you can fit in your car, and (in correlary), bigger than you can get out your damned door without..." [
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Yesterday
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"That boy is a keeper. Called and apologized? Reported it to his recruiting officer? Does he have a brother for my daughter?" [
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favorited 10 times, recently by anildash, Lotto, RedEmma, arcticwoman, Perplexity, ceri richard, badmoonrising, Derive the Hamiltonian of..., bettafish, Phalene
4 days ago
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"I propose nailing the next candidate who uses a folksy aphorism to the wall. Possibly encased in jello." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ninazer0, liza
7 days ago
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"Make sure your comments are of the "active listening" type-- repeat, in your own words, your understanding of any given point, end the comment with a question that demands a response-- "is that an accurate description of what you mean?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pointystick
8 days ago
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"I wish I had something intelligent to add, but really I'm just holding my place. Thanks y'all" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
2 weeks ago
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"As someone working in the nfp sector, every time I hear a remark like this, denigrating a local or regional research, infrastructure, education or arts project as an "earmark" I see red. Not every local expenditure by the national..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dreama, DU
2 weeks ago
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"Not to sound too naive, but are we finally going to get past the lie that everyone's money is safer in the stock market? Are we finally going to allow people with smaller resources (like the ability to put the limit of just $5,000 per year in IRAs,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by schyler523, ornate insect, Miko
2 weeks ago
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"I just keep wondering where these guys were with their trillion dollar bailout when the American public school system failed. Or the manufacturing sector. Or the roads and bridges. Or New Orleans. Or accessible higher education. Or water and..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by Kronos_to_Earth, notashroom, Scoo, msbrauer, manguero, marble, cathodeheart, Marla Singer, Pope Guilty, PROD_TPSL, six-or-six-thirty, cadge, troy, toastchee, lunit, kwaller, bonaldi, fourcheesemac, grouse
3 weeks ago
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"Yes. The American Medical Association Series How to Understand your Symptoms (one for Men, one for Women, one for Children). Excellent, easy to read, full of common sense...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waraw
Last month
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"You are not laid back, or willing to let things slide, and she is not a nag or emotional. In fact, you are making her be in charge of this stuff. You are making it both her fault and her responsibility for things to be done. If you wait until she..." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by mai, geekgirl397, iamkimiam, AceRock, kitkatcathy, katiecat, Orb, LobsterMitten, gatorae, Abbril, konolia, tomboko, Wilder, mynameisluka, funkiwan, cabingirl, peep, desjardins, The Light Fantastic, nooneyouknow, alicetiara, jamaro, ThePinkSuperhero, changeling, Jemstar, sondrialiac, wyzewoman, DulcineaX
Last month
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"As a parent of a former nationally-competitive athlete, albeit in the wings of the sport, and a coach in that sport, I can tell you, Tongay notwithstanding, abuse and tolerance of abuse starts with the coaches. When my daughter proved resistant to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by JHarris, dejah420, acro, orrnyereg, koeselitz, small_ruminant, philip-random, nickyskye, Tehanu
Last month
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"You cannot decide that certain political positions such as sex/abstinence education, abortion, gun control, school funding/vouchers, etc., are actually evidence of your “values” or worse of “family values” and then claim that the effects and evidence..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by blueberry, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, the dief, amyms, bitter-girl.com, milarepa, orthogonality
Last month
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"1- In the party of Susan Collins, Lynn Martin, Elizabeth Dole, Olympia Snowe, Sandra Day O’Connor, Christine Todd Whitman, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Margaret Spelling, Condoleeza Rice, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Kay Orr, Susan Molinari, and Kay Granger, this..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, jokeefe, blueberry, dejah420, showbiz_liz, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, bitter-girl.com, orthogonality, madamjujujive, Blazecock Pileon, Cool Papa Bell
Last month
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"Obama’s positions are nuanced, flexible, considered, intellectual, and rely on historical context. Republicans' positions are visceral, dogmatic, and simplistic and rely on slogans. Which ones do you think are going to appeal to the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, cell divide
Last month
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"Please don't ban your stepdad from your home. This will ruin your relationship with your mother, and you'll end up without either of them. Do some practical stuff-- put them up in a nearby hotel, on the old adage that fish and house guests stink..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grlnxtdr
Last month
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"I cried for two hours. I'm crying now. I am so full of joy and hope because of this. I did not ever really believe that this country would nominate a black man for president in my lifetime. And that the runner up was a woman just made it that much..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mothershock, stavrosthewonderchicken
Last month
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"My family used to play a word-string game where you deliberately misunderstand a word, for instance the first person uses the word "fussed," the next place says, no that's when you do something no one else has done. Then the next player..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by attercoppe
Last month
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"NBC's videos on line don't work if you have an older computer. Those of us who don't upgrade their operating systems ever 8 minutes, and who opt out of the extremely expensive and useless (except once every two years) cable tv system basically got..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by holgate, mecran01
Last month
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"I'm a professional figure skating coach who has taken a lot of seminars in the unbelievably complex new judging system. While more detailed and complex than the gymnastics one it has some things in common, including combining a start score for..." [
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Last month
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favorited 16 times, recently by beckish, snickerdoodle, zennoshinjou, acridrabbit, snofoam, wilde, Big_B, yohko, bubukaba, maryh, boomchicka, Susurration, colt45, ecsh, libraryhead, sharkfu
Last month
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"It's not that Brooks is an asshole, or that neuroscientists set things up to reinforce their preconceptions, it's that the media machine/corporate interests find it easier to deal with these collective shorthands-- Asians (Chinese) subvert..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Devils Rancher
Last month
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"A question from the resident communist here-- why the hell are we paying PRIVATE COMPANIES for necessary power. Why are people allowed to make a personal profit from utilities, which you MUST purchase. It's not a freaking swimming pool for god's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by litlnemo, jtron
2 months ago
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"Kerasia, I heard a different take on that quote that might have some bearing here: "I made money so that my son would be able to listen to great music, and my grandson would be able to write it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Xere
2 months ago
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"verb, I'm right with you. I dread this subject coming up among my very liberal cohort, because I do not believe in abortion. Knowing that this is a personal choice for me however, I would never ever expect to impose my feelings on someone who does..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
2 months ago
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"I find it difficult to read these things without feeling utter despair. Voting is rigged. If any right-thinking person tries to blow the lid off this shit the special interest ads immediately start in:
-Reinstate the taxes for the 1% richest..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
2 months ago
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"AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH! George W. Bush subverted the constitution. He overrides Congress with no more authority than his sweet smile! Dick Cheney SHOT someone. George Tennant fabricated intelligence! Don't even get me started on Monica Goodling, John..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
2 months ago
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"mr. nax and I have been through the "security cleaned out your desk while you were being fired" routine. In 10 years, we have never forgiven them, and bad mouth the company to anyone who asks. It is a really really really shitty thing to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jenfullmoon
2 months ago
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"bl1nk, you're missing a crucial piece of the AD-- it's not just material prosperity, or ownership, but prosperity and ownership on one's own terms, regardless of the circumstances of your birth, and without anyone (specifically The Man, or the..." [
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2 months ago
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"When I was 6, my mother taught me to say "piss, shit and corruption" instead of um, swearing. I must have been one foul-mouthed little so-and-so. Anyway, I still do it, but you could maybe say "pee poop and corruption" instead?..." [
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2 months ago
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"It is traditional to buy newly married people gifts, whatever their age. It is traditional to help young people set up in life. One statement has nothing to do with the other. Gifts are not an entrance fee to any event. It is none of your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
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"I've said it before, but why not say it again? Massive military procurement projects like this are really just ways of diverting billions in public funds into the hands of influential defense contractors.
What I have never understood is why..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by desiderandus, Reverend John, jamjam, Anything, nooneyouknow
2 months ago
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"I'm 52. I have reinvented myself, on average, every 5 to 7 years. I have been an artist, a music entrepreneur (classical music), a tour manager, a mother, a fundraiser, and a skating coach. I have traveled to 7 countries and 16 states, about half..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by outlier, Ookseer, rongorongo, seawallrunner
2 months ago
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"The only person whose opinion really matters regarding facial hair is the person who is kissing your face." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by knile
2 months ago
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"Can you start a vegetable garden? For most veggies you need 70 to 90 days from seed (the cheapest way to do this) so you've just about got time, especially if you do a container garden on a sunny porch, plus with a container garden if it starts..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Capri, chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"Came up with another way of describing this: it's like everyone in the room knows something you don't know and they expect you to know it. The awful part is that it is true-- they all know how to function in a roomful of strangers...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saturnine
2 months ago
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"Families use the image-freezing magic of the camera to isolate, record, and confer importance on certain events in their lives." This is so true-- everyone must have, like my family, those images that are recorded year after year (in my family,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Card Cheat
2 months ago
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"Norabarnacl3's description of social anxiety is brilliant. I'm planning to commit it to memory so I can repeat it like a mantra next time I'm faced with this.
As far as explaining this to people who don't experience it, good luck. I've tried. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oogenesis
2 months ago
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"If your problem is that you think, "I should do Project X today, but first I need to check out what's happening in cyberspace", then we can't really help you here. The solution to that is to do the project instead of sitting in front of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by minus zero
2 months ago
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"Last year I was driving down McCormick Blvd, (zoom in for scale) a 4-lane through street with an average speed of 50 mph when a mother duck and her brood decided to cross (there's a canal and park on one side). I was the first car they would have..." [
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2 months ago
